HOW TO READ A SILENT FILM: HAROLD LLOYD'S [i]THE FRESHMAN[/i]
The activities in Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman (1925, directed by Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer) help students discover how to decode this silent film comedy, practicing their inference skills as they learn to identify nuances of meaning within the moving images. The lesson also explores the historical and cultural context of the film — college life in the 1920s.
